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I’ve never had to try and remove ads from macOS to the extent that I do with windows 10, it’s not devoid of advertising but not quite as bad
by NegativeLatency 5y ago
I’ve never had to try and remove ads from macOS to the extent that I do with windows 10, it’s not devoid of advertising but not quite as bad
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoMoving the goalposts. The parent was asking about telemetry specifically.
- nightski 5y agoYou get ads on Windows 10? I've never seen a third party ad. They have had an ad for Office which was a live tile (which I have disabled because I do not find them useful.
- zinekeller 5y agoAlso not me, but American friends have always complained about this so I presume that they don't want to anger some regulators in countries where they don't put ads.
- skydhash 5y agoThey were in the start menu. Ads for software and games. There was that candy crush saga game for ages.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoIndeed even here in Europe. Cleaning the start menu from all that crap is the first thing I always do. I empty out the entire right hand side, because if you do so it actually disappears! But many updates put things back there.
- slg 5y agoAds are telemetry now? Is "telemetry" just a catch all for "anything software does that I don't like"?
- rcthompson 5y agoI'm pretty sure computer ads have always been telemetry.
- slg 5y agoThis is a unique definition of “telemetry” as it usually requires collection of data. Some ads use telemetry for better targeting, but that isn’t all ads and definitely wasn’t true when things like banner ads were first introduced.
- uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 5y agoIs this telemetry